Aaron Taylor Kuffner (AKA Zemi 17)

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Zemi17 (or the human known as Aaron Taylor Kuffner),
is a composer, musician, and media artist.
In the 1990s, Zemi brought his studies in new physics,
technology, mixed media installation and experimental
performance into the underground art scenes of New
Orleans and San Francisco. He created technology art,
internet art and electronica-tribal music interspersed
with guerrilla performance and circus artistry. In 1997, he
moved to New York and formed the experimental multi-
media performance group Ransom Corp. This group
hosted events and performed in warehouses, on boats,
subways and streets throughout New York and Europe.
Zemi17 founded the 23 Windows Collective community
arts studio in Brooklyn in 2001 and co-created and
curated The Resonant Wave Experimental Multi Media
Art Festival in Berlin.

From 2004 through 2006, Zemi17 lived and worked in
Indonesia with the support of the Indonesian Foreign
Ministry. He collected extensive field recordings of nature
and researched classic gamelan music, performing with
professional groups in Yogyakarta and Bali. His study was
concentrated on two archaic forms of gamelan: Sekatan
from the courts of Central Java and Slonding from the
Bali Highlands. His audio recordings and notation in
System Notasi Nusantara were compiled into a summary
report for the Indonesian Dharmasiswa Council for the
propagation of Indonesian Arts.
http://zemi17.net

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